Known for
8.0A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Professional Killers
1972
6.5Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
Rodan
1956
10.0After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.
Crazy Operation: First Move
1963
7.2Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Beyond The Stars
1956
Film credits
1960s · 3 titles
10.0After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.
Crazy Operation: First Move
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Heavenly Comic Story of a Gentleman
1960
Japanese comedy film.
誰よりも金を愛す
1961
1950s · 27 titles
6.5Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
Rodan
1956
7.2Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Beyond The Stars
1956
NRThe first of six "Otora-san" features.
Otora-san
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born
1956
NRThe third "Otora-san" feature.
Otora-san at His Best
1958
10.0During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers. After heartbreak and tragedy in the snow, she departs renewed, ready to begin again.
Frame of Snow
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Norihei's College Affair: The Happy Family
1956
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Will-o'-the-Wisp
1956
NRHachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.
A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Laugh-Filled Detective Story
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Young Lady on Her Way
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure
1955
9.0Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957
NRThe fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.
Jirocho's Surprise: Haikagura, Kiso's Fire Festival
1958
10.01953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
1953
NRSoemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Record of a Crafty Gentleman
1956
7.01955 Japanese movie
Muttsuri Umon's Detective Stories: The Demon Mask Mansion
1955
8.0An Ishiro Honda film.
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1959
NRChōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the Tawarado family, the island’s wealthiest clan, was desperately searching for their missing heir, Kyutaro, he immediately disguises himself as Kyutaro and makes his way there.
This Love Costs 50 Million Yen
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Nonsense Detective Story: The Phantom Woman
1952
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Diary of the First Incredible Laughing Trip
1955
NRJapanese comedy film.
Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai
1956
1940s · 6 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Hyoroku's Dream Tale
1943
7.0After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Life Is like a Somersault
1946
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Luxurious Ship for the Bridegroom
1947
NREnoken's first film at Daiei.
Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai
1948
NREnoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
1940
NRPostwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives. Will Enoken help the Giants take the pennant?
Enoken's Home Run King
1948
1930s · 11 titles
Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.
Enoken's Donguri Tonbei
1936
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939
NRIn 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty.
Romantic and Crazy
1934
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939
7.51930s Japanese comedy.
Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait
1937
8.0A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way
1937
An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
Enoken's Hokaibo
1938
The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's incredible climax, when Enoken fends off dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to mind a slightly less dextrous Jackie Chan.
Enoken's Kurama Tengu
1939
Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke
1937
Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
Enoken's Kondo Isami
1935
NRTwo hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
Rivals
1939
